Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly ( Kip Pardue ) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's slipping in the rankings as the championships loom. Under pressure from his promoter brother Demille ( Robert Sean Leonard ) and wheelchair-bound owner Carl Henry ( Burt Reynolds ), Jimmy is given a mentor — Joe Tanto ( Stallone ), a once great CART competitor whose career and marriage to Cathy ( Gina Gershon ) were destroyed by a tragic accident. Joe must earn the rookie's trust, while attempting a career comeback, dealing with persistent reporter Lucretia Clan ( Stacy Edwards ), and facing Cathy, who's remarried to rival racing sensation Memo Moreno ( Cristian de la Fuente ). Meanwhile, Jimmy is stirring up his own romantic trouble by pursuing Sophia ( Estella Warren ), the girlfriend of top driver Beau Brandenburg ( Til Schweiger ). Long interested in creating a car racing drama, Stallone penned Driven after abandoning a film biography of real-life Formula One legend Ayrton Senna. — Karl Williams